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Portrait by Amanda Demme

Ania Catherine is an artist from Los Angeles, currently based in Madrid. Stemming from a background in contemporary dance, she creates works that flow between choreography, performance, poetry, film, installation, photography, and combinations thereof. Her work has been shown at the British Film Institute, Francisco Carolinum Museum (Linz), Art Basel Hong Kong, SCAD Museum of Art, Dansmuseet (Stockholm), Musei di San Salvatore in Lauro (Rome), London Fashion Week, Ars Electronica Global Gallery (Linz), Trauma Bar und Kino (Berlin), Forum des images (Paris), CICA Museum (Korea), the International Meeting on Screendance (Valencia, Spain) among others. Her practice has roots in slow cinema, surrealism, the aesthetics of boredom, and her studies (academic and physical) of the body as a tool of both learning and unlearning. She holds a master’s degree in Gender and Politics from the London School of Economics and works internationally performing, choreographing, speaking, directing, and teaching.


Operator

Catherine has an ongoing collaboration with her partner Dejha Ti merging technology, performance, and environments; in 2016 they launched their art house Operator. Their collaborative works have won the Lumen Prize, ADC Gold Cube, and received an Honorary Mention for the S+T+ARTS Prize. Recognized as critical voices shaping the future of digital and experiential art, the duo has been invited to speak at festivals and conferences such as Christie’s Art and Tech Summit (Hong Kong), MUTEK (Montreal), Tech Open Air (Berlin), Bloomberg’s ART+TECHNOLOGY, BBC Click, Ars Electronica, and the Crypto and Digital Art Fair (NYC/Miami).

In 2023, Operator developed an on-chain generative choreography method.